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Catharpin
Catharpin is a nautical term, which is often pronounced ''cat-harping''. It describes one of the short ropes or iron clamps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so as to give a freer sweep to the yards.〔Lever, D. (1998). ''The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor'', Dover Maritime Books, p.25.〕
Example from ''Two Years Before the Mast'' by Richard Henry Dana:
"All the hides, too, that came down in the boats were soaked with water, and unfit to put below, so that we were obliged to trice them up to dry, in the intervals of sunshine or wind, upon all parts of the vessel . . . The rail, fore and aft, the windlass, capstan, the sides of the ship, and every vacant place on deck, were covered with wet hides, on the least sign of an interval for drying. Our ship was nothing but a mass of hides, from the cat-harpins to the water's edge, and from the jib-boom-end to the taffrail."〔The Project Gutenberg Etext of ''Two Years Before the Mast'' by Richard Henry Dana (1840)〕
It is also the name of a small, few-store settlement in Virginia, north of Manassas battlefield.
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